Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,064, Henry Ginger, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Penn
Ginger, Henry
S 31,064
CONTENTS

Illinois. - 7.853.
Henry Gringer.
of Fayette Co. in the State of Illinois, who was a Private in the Buff. M. commanded by Captain Dennis of the Regt. commanded by Col. Butler in the Penn. line for three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of April 1833 and sent to W. H. Brown. Vandalia. Illinois
Arrears to the 4th of March. 1833. 160.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. 40.
$200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by John F. Johnson Clerk, Book 6. Vol. 8, Page 57.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 th March 1838 to the 4 Sept 1838. Cgt notified 12 Nov 1839.

o No 149990 = 7853.
Henry George Fagett Covent Illinois
Admitted for 2 years from 1876. $ 80.
Look on Pen Role
or note
Wm H Brown Vandalia Illinois

BRIEF in the case of  Henry Ginger  County of Fayette  in the State of Illinois  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 75 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. 7 Penn a Reg t   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted In 1776 for 1778 3 - - private Gen. Washington Col. Walter Brumg. Col. Butler  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Doylestown  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Philadelphia  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Rob t H. G. Walter
Examining Clerk.

Henry Ginger
17990

State of Illinois
Fayette County    On this nineteenth day of October, Eighteen hundred and thirty two, before the Hon. Theophilus W. Smith Judge of the Circuit Court for the County of Fayette aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court, Henry Ginger, a resident of the County of Fayette and State of Illinois, aged Seventy five years on the fourth day of April next, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he was born in Middle town Township, Cumberland County Pennsylvania April 4, 1758, as he believes, but has no record of his age - That he enlisted for three years, at the City of Philadelphia, as near as he can recollect, in the fall of 1776, in Capt. Walter Denny's Company, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Col. Butler, as he thinks and in a short time was marched to join the troops under Gen. Washington, at a point on the Delaware, when Washington crossed his troops the night before the battle of Trenton - That he crossed with the troops, and was in that battle - That his memory is so defective he cannot recollect where he was employed, until the battle of Brandywine, in which battle he was, which was fought in warm weather - in the he was with Washington's troops, and in the fall after the battle of Brandywine, he was in the battle of Germantown, after which he cannot say which way he went, but thinks that the winter after, he staid at the Valley Forge - In the year 1778, he thinks he was all the time in the State of Pennsylvania, but cannot remember what he service he was employed in. The next year the most he can remember, was a battle between two regiments of American troops, and some British & Hessian, near the town of Doylestown Pennsylvania - in which battle the Americans were successful - but this Deponent, with about eighty others being ordered to attack a particular point occupied by the enemy, was cut off by their Cavalry,

and with Forty four others, was taken prisoner, and was carried to the City of New York, and imprisoned in a Church, three months & three weeks. when upon an exchange of prisoners, he was released, and returned to his home in Cumberland County aforesaid - his time of enlistment being then about out. In the battle of Doylestown, Capt. Denny was killed. That he received a discharge at Carlisle, Penn. which some years since he left with a brother in law, but who is now dead, and he knows not what has become of it.
After the war, as near as he can recollect, he lived in Cumberland County between fifteen & twenty years, afterwards removed to North Carolina, where he remained ten or twelve years, when he removed to East Tennessee, & from thence to West Tennessee, in which state he lived some where about fifteen years - and from thence to the State of Illinois, in this County, where he has lived for the last six years.
That the Rev. John Brown  Francis Brown and William Nichols his neighbors, have known him for some time, and will testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution. That he knows of no persons by whom he can prove any of his services aforesaid, neither has he any documents by which he can establish them, or strengthen his statements.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on any the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to subscribed the 7 day of year aforesaid Jas M Berry Clk
Henry his  mark Ginger
We Francis Brown  John Brown a Vygymaw, residing in the County of Fayette, and William Nichols residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Ginger, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration - that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed this day of year aforesaid Jas M Berry Clk
Francis Brown William Nichols

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the Investigation of the matter, and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Francis Brown John Knight who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the County of Fayette, and that William Nichols who has also signed the same, is a resident in the County of Fayette, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I James W. Berry Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Fayette, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Henry Binger for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Vandalia, this 19 th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty seven.
Jas. W. Berry Clerk

31064 Rev INVALID.
File No. 31,064
Henry Singer Rev Rev was
Act: June 7 th 22 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 153
[Arrangement of 1870.]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
October 31 st , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Henry Ginger, _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Illinois Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March 1838, to the 1 st Sept. 1838,
Respectfully, yours,
Edward B. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Henry Ginger which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.